Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Schlumberger is the world's largest offshore drilling company and contractor by revenue, founded in 1926 by two brothers from Alsace. It provides various services and products for the petroleum industry, such as seismic data processing, well testing, artificial lift, and software and information management.
277 Park Avenue is a 687-foot office building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It has its own ZIP Code, 10172, and houses parts of JPMorgan Chase and other tenants.
Jean Schlumberger was a French jewellery designer who worked at Tiffany & Co. and created whimsical pieces inspired by nature. He designed for celebrities such as Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, and won the Coty Award in 1958.
Cameron International is a global company that provides pressure control, production, processing, and flow control systems and services for the oil and gas and process industries. It was founded in 1920 as Cameron Iron Works and acquired by Schlumberger in 2016.
John and Dominique de Menil began collecting art intensively in the 1940s, beginning with a purchase of Paul Cézanne's 1895 painting Montagne (Mountain) in 1945.With the guidance of the Dominican priest Marie-Alain Couturier, who introduced the de Menils to the work of artists in galleries and museums in New York, they became interested in the intersection of modern art and spirituality.
Jean Riboud (15 November 1919 – 20 October 1985) was a French socialist, corporate executive, and the chairman of Schlumberger, [1] the largest oilfield services company in the world. [2]
Pierre Schlumberger was born in 1914, the son of Marcel Schlumberger, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Jeanne Laurans. [1] Marcel co-founded Schlumberger in the 1920s with his brother, Conrad, a physicist. [1] Pierre was the brothers' only male heir.
Its corporate headquarters were in Syosset, New York, which were later moved to Mountain View, California when Lester Hogan assumed control of Fairchild Semiconductor. Fairchild Systems. In 1979, Fairchild Camera and Instrument (including Fairchild Semiconductor) became a subsidiary of Schlumberger.